Anytime a director wins their first Oscar for Best Director, it makes me eagerly anticipate their follow-up. For anyone who has been waiting for Danny Boyle's next film since capturing the world with "Slumdog Millionaire", the wait is over, kinda.
Finally we get the much-anticipated trailer for Boyle's next film, "127 Hours", starring James Franco.
Most people know the story already. Franco will play rock climber Aron Ralston and it will follow his harrowing ordeal when he was trapped in a Utah slot canyon, his arm pinned by a boulder. About five days later (127 hours, to be precise), he proceeded to amputate his own arm, with a dull knife no less. It's a harrowing, unbelievable story, and I was extremely curious to see how Boyle would handle it.
From the look of the trailer, this film has potential to be another award winner and just flat out great.
Things begin happily enough with the camera brining us some utterly beautiful desert/mountain landscapes. Franco takes over from there, racing his bike through the desolate southwest, rescuing Kate Mara and Amber Tamblyn and showing them a good time, before the inevitable happens, and he gets stuck under a boulder.
The final scene of the trailer gives us a glimpse of this moment, and it is perfectly set
up. Although we know it's coming, it's still a shock when you see it happen.
Just from seeing how the film will actually look, the expansive landscapes, and harsh terrain, this could be another Boyle masterpiece in the making. Boyle shot the movie in Utah, both in southern Utah locations and on a Salt Lake City soundstage, so it's no surprise why it looks so good.
Franco over the past few years has dabbled in a bit of everyting, from art to writing, to being a student, so it's nice to see him taking on a meaty role like this.
Boyle spoke about the film last week and offered up some information about it:
"The advantage we got with the [Slumdog Millionaire] success we had was that you had
an opportunity to do something with it, and I’ve wanted to make this film since 2005…I
didn’t want to do it like Touching the Void, because that was so wonderful and I didn’t
want to do it like a documentary. I said I wanted to do it where you are part of the
experience, and where the audience is trapped with Aron for the whole 127…Without
that [Slumdog] success, we wouldn’t have gotten to make it. Because what you saw in
the teaser trailer is the good bit, the fun bit – and after that he’s stuck there."
I was already super excited for this film even before the trailer came out. Now that it did? See you on opening night. Check out the trailer over at Trailer Addict.
What did you think of the trailer?
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